ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' v V' ♦/V';---' ,V' : '■;" BANK MANACER KILLED. FALLS BETWEEN TWO RAILWAY CARRIAGES.„ ■ (BY lELEGBAPH—PEES3 ASSOCIATION.) Duncdin, March 27." Mr. D. A. 1 Bramble, manager of the Bank of New. Zealand at Outram, was the victim of a fatal accident' at. Mosgiel railway station ■ to-night. No one witnessed the accident, but it is. surmised that dcceased,"Who ; was a 'passengor . from attempted • to quit tho train" wliilei it was in-motion, .. • with,Vthe •-'result 1 that', lie fell between' two carriages.' : One log was completely sevored , • from the body. Deceased, who is a married, man, is believed to bo about 40 jrosrs of ago. , ; A COOK'S DEATH. . New Plymouth, March 27. , The body of James Lindsay,'the cook on • the s.s. Tainui,. was recovered in tb.e Wai- : . tara river to-day, a deep gash showing oa the head. The steamqr,was ■ lying alongside the wharf, and it is presumed that the de-. . ceasfed missed his footing while going aboard on Wednesday, night. He only shipped this trip-at Wellington, where he is'believed to , have a wife' residing in, Taranaki: Street.;. ' . TAKES POISON IN DELIRIUM. V' . i Hastings,-'-March 27.. Mr. Rumney Rabbins, whilo sutfcring from delirium tremens, took a dose of chloride of mercury last night. Dr. Nairn arrived on tho scone in time . to , savo tho man's life. Robbing appeared at the Police Court this morning, and was remanded for eight days. Moantimo he will be sent to Napier for; cura- ■ tivo treatnioSt. DEATH FROM TETANUS. . . Auckland, Marcii, 27. Irene Graydon, two and a half, yoirs old, daughter of an Onohunga resident, died from tetanus in the Auckland Hospital last night. She was walking barefooted, wben sho picked up, a splintery which was apparently. only partially removed. A UTIKU MYSTERY. \ Taihapc, March 27. ■The skoloton of a human body was found in Perham and Lars&i's bush, near, Utiku; by a party of buslimoh. .The skuJl is in a . good state, of preservation . The uolico are iinvestigating. : ... • ■